A report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency cites unnamed sources who claim that Kim Jong Un put to death all the relatives of the leader’s uncle, including children and the country’s ambassadors to Cuba and Malaysia. In

On Wednesday, North Korea announced its first set of rubber-stamp elections since Kim Jong Un came to power. The news comes about a month after the young leader had his influential uncle, Jang Song Thaek, executed on treason …

Australia has closed its main military base in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, and the country’s final batch of combat troops are on their way home. The departure marks the end of several years of combat that have left dozens of troops dead and more than two hundreds seriously wounded.

Supporters of two soccer teams from Rio de Janeiro clashed on Sunday during a Brazilian championship match, interrupting the game for more than one hour and leaving at least three people hospitalized in serious conditions, local officials said.

Nomadic Bedouin tribes have wandered the deserts of Southern Israel for millennia. After the Israeli government approved a plan to relocate up to 40,000 Bedouins and demolish about 40 villages, thousands of Bedouins have protested what they see as a menace to their way of life.

Weeks after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines, more than one million people have received food aid, the United Nations estimates. But logistical hurdles are still obstructing relief efforts across the island nation.

As the U.S. and Afghanistan seek to hammer out a security deal for 2014 that will set out the terms of the U.S.’s continued presence in the country for years to come, all eyes fall on this week’s Loya Jirga. This grand assembly of tribal leaders, deeply embedded in Afghan culture, isn’t your usual decision making body. Here’s what you …